Showing results for "The Race" in Architecture
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Billionaires' Row
- Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
- By: Katherine Clarke
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A “thrilling” (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal “Deeply informative...
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insightful and entertaining.
- By Louisa Philippé on 28-07-24
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Billionaires' Row
- Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 13-06-23
- Language: English
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The Great Miscalculation
- The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower
- By: Michael M. Greenburg
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown jewel of his professional career; In essence, he created a skyscraper on stilts. The building was a modern marvel—until it was revealed that it had a one in sixteen chance of collapse.
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The Great Miscalculation
- The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-06-25
- Language: English
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Higher
- A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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This riveting, true account of the 1929 race to build New York City's tallest skyscraper evokes the glory of an exciting time long past.
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Higher
- A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
- Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-03-05
- Language: English
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